Swedish Firms Squeezed as Krona Rises on Euro

VADERSTAD, Sweden—This cozy village got a visit in March from Sweden's prime minister, who praised farm-machinery company Vaderstad-Verken AB as one of the country's "successful export companies."

But Fredrik Reinfeldt got a stern complaint from Christina Stark, an executive at the family-run company, which has been in business for half a century. She told the prime minister that the strong Swedish krona is battering the...